Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,617 6,362 6,725
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.60% 23.05% 20.63%
As % of the General category 33.48% 35.79% 35.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,393 4,266 4,493
10th Percentile £361 £341 £365
25th Percentile £450 £416 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £788 £813 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 98 134
10th Percentile £15.11 £15.48 £15.07
25th Percentile £20.31 £19.53 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.77% -12.03% +36.13%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £78.05 £80.75 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +50.19% -16.37% +36.13%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,741 17,775 18,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.58% 64.41% 58.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,233 11,248 11,690
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 993 1,008
10th Percentile £13.88 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.21 £16.17 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £39.59
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -36.47% +42.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.50 £71.33
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £38.07
% change year-on-year +19.28% -33.94% +38.44%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,208 £585 -0.43% 10,511
North of England 0 1,349 £506 +10.66% 1,720
South East -1 749 £500 -4.76% 1,683
North West -1 684 £500 +11.11% 1,050
Midlands -2 617 £507 +6.74% 858
Yorkshire 0 583 £519 +6.63% 493
West Midlands 0 460 £525 +2.19% 528
South West -7 362 £550 -4.35% 951
East of England +3 211 £550 -1.12% 647
East Midlands -4 154 £500 +19.05% 330
North East -7 75 £500 +14.29% 199
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 301 (3.49%) Confluence
2 238 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 86 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 75 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 58 (0.67%) Apache
6 41 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.36%) CMS
8 25 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
9 24 (0.28%) SAS
10 17 (0.20%) Camunda
11 16 (0.19%) IIS
12 15 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.093%) CICS
14 7 (0.081%) WebLogic
15 6 (0.070%) Appian
15 6 (0.070%) Ethereum
16 5 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.058%) WordPress
17 4 (0.046%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 4 (0.046%) WebSphere
Applications
1 478 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 177 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 146 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 76 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.093%) Trello
9 7 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.081%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.058%) Sketch
11 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.046%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.035%) Notion
12 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
13 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
13 2 (0.023%) InVision
Business Applications
1 326 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 115 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
3 105 (1.22%) NetSuite
4 98 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 83 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
6 70 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
7 63 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
8 56 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
9 50 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 47 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
11 37 (0.43%) SAP FI
12 34 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
12 34 (0.39%) Workday HCM
13 32 (0.37%) Aladdin
14 31 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
15 26 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
16 25 (0.29%) SAP CO
17 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
18 21 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
19 19 (0.22%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 1,403 (16.28%) Azure
2 958 (11.12%) AWS
3 606 (7.03%) Power Platform
4 463 (5.37%) GCP
5 317 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
6 292 (3.39%) SaaS
7 284 (3.30%) GitHub
8 280 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
9 229 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
10 211 (2.45%) Entra ID
11 191 (2.22%) Snowflake
12 141 (1.64%) Serverless
13 120 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
14 117 (1.36%) dbt
15 111 (1.29%) Power Automate
16 110 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 103 (1.20%) Amazon S3
17 103 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
18 101 (1.17%) OCI
19 93 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 158 (1.83%) Firewall
2 139 (1.61%) Network Security
3 99 (1.15%) VPN
4 79 (0.92%) DNS
5 55 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 50 (0.58%) WAN
7 49 (0.57%) DHCP
8 42 (0.49%) BGP
9 37 (0.43%) SSL
10 34 (0.39%) VLAN
11 33 (0.38%) Multicast
12 28 (0.32%) LAN
12 28 (0.32%) Wireless
13 27 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.29%) HTTP
15 22 (0.26%) OSPF
15 22 (0.26%) SAN
16 21 (0.24%) Internet
17 15 (0.17%) DMZ
18 14 (0.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 502 (5.83%) Power BI
2 262 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 237 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 173 (2.01%) Metadata
5 147 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 118 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 118 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 102 (1.18%) Tableau
8 73 (0.85%) NoSQL
9 66 (0.77%) Oracle Database
10 65 (0.75%) BigQuery
11 58 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
12 56 (0.65%) MongoDB
13 55 (0.64%) Power Query
14 54 (0.63%) Delta Lake
15 44 (0.51%) Big Data
16 43 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
17 37 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
18 35 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 33 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 596 (6.92%) JIRA
2 251 (2.91%) Git
3 155 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 101 (1.17%) GitLab
5 54 (0.63%) Selenium
6 48 (0.56%) JUnit
7 33 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 31 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.34%) REST Assured
9 29 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 27 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 27 (0.31%) Maven
12 26 (0.30%) Claude Code
13 24 (0.28%) ERwin
14 22 (0.26%) Gradle
15 21 (0.24%) Cypress.io
16 20 (0.23%) Postman
17 18 (0.21%) Zephyr
18 17 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 2,677 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 1,809 (20.99%) Banking
3 1,266 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 441 (5.12%) Legal
5 438 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 370 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
7 347 (4.03%) Retail
8 341 (3.96%) Investment Banking
9 306 (3.55%) Front Office
10 300 (3.48%) Financial Institution
11 286 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
12 186 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 182 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 167 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 153 (1.78%) Marketing
16 151 (1.75%) General Ledger
17 143 (1.66%) Billing
18 141 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
19 138 (1.60%) Local Government
20 133 (1.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,258 (14.60%) Analyst
2 959 (11.13%) Senior
3 893 (10.36%) Lead
4 855 (9.92%) Developer
5 761 (8.83%) Architect
6 630 (7.31%) Business Analyst
7 600 (6.96%) Project Manager
8 570 (6.61%) Consultant
9 285 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
10 275 (3.19%) Data Engineer
11 230 (2.67%) Financial Analyst
12 208 (2.41%) Senior Manager
13 177 (2.05%) Data Analyst
14 173 (2.01%) Java Developer
15 172 (2.00%) Programme Manager
15 172 (2.00%) Senior Developer
16 169 (1.96%) Accountant
17 167 (1.94%) Finance Manager
18 162 (1.88%) IT Manager
19 140 (1.62%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (3.73%) Terraform
2 316 (3.67%) REST
3 259 (3.01%) .NET
4 223 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 217 (2.52%) React
6 214 (2.48%) Kafka
7 167 (1.94%) Spring
8 164 (1.90%) Spring Boot
9 158 (1.83%) Middleware
10 137 (1.59%) PySpark
11 116 (1.35%) RESTful
12 84 (0.97%) OAuth
12 84 (0.97%) XML
13 79 (0.92%) JSON
14 75 (0.87%) Redux
15 72 (0.84%) AngularJS
16 68 (0.79%) Node.js
17 67 (0.78%) SOAP
18 65 (0.75%) HTML
19 62 (0.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 475 (5.51%) Onboarding
2 443 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 383 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 243 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 220 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 212 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 173 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 169 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 164 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 160 (1.86%) Derivative
11 158 (1.83%) AI Agents
12 153 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 150 (1.74%) Data Centre
14 122 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
15 116 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
16 115 (1.33%) Fixed Income
17 102 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
18 99 (1.15%) Equities
19 96 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
20 90 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 340 (3.95%) Windows
2 268 (3.11%) Linux
3 137 (1.59%) Unix
4 76 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 52 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 39 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 35 (0.41%) Android
9 31 (0.36%) Solaris
10 28 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 28 (0.32%) zOS
11 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.12%) AIX
13 8 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.093%) VMS
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 4 (0.046%) CentOS
15 4 (0.046%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,253 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,816 (21.07%) Agile
3 1,178 (13.67%) Migration
4 1,163 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1,101 (12.78%) AI
6 1,076 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,022 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 962 (11.16%) CI/CD
9 898 (10.42%) Analytics
10 894 (10.37%) DevOps
11 850 (9.86%) Decision-Making
12 848 (9.84%) ERP
13 773 (8.97%) Roadmaps
14 743 (8.62%) Validation
15 705 (8.18%) Project Management
16 680 (7.89%) Data Modelling
17 659 (7.65%) Change Management
17 659 (7.65%) User Acceptance Testing
18 603 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
19 591 (6.86%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,183 (13.73%) SQL
2 1,059 (12.29%) Python
3 558 (6.48%) Java
4 341 (3.96%) C#
5 257 (2.98%) PowerShell
6 225 (2.61%) JavaScript
7 198 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 125 (1.45%) Bash
9 100 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 82 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 66 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 64 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 62 (0.72%) C++
14 55 (0.64%) Bicep
15 44 (0.51%) Korn
16 38 (0.44%) Go
16 38 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 37 (0.43%) VBA
18 35 (0.41%) Scala
19 33 (0.38%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 682 (7.91%) Security Cleared
2 663 (7.69%) Degree
3 485 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 241 (2.80%) PMP
5 211 (2.45%) PMI Certification
6 191 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 188 (2.18%) ACCA
8 163 (1.89%) CIMA
9 141 (1.64%) CISSP
10 129 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 120 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 103 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 80 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 79 (0.92%) CISM
15 64 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 60 (0.70%) AWS Certification
17 48 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
18 45 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 44 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 35 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 612 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 380 (4.41%) QA
3 336 (3.90%) PMO
4 212 (2.46%) GDPR
5 137 (1.59%) NIST
6 113 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 99 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 98 (1.14%) GRC
9 94 (1.09%) IFRS
10 84 (0.97%) SLA
11 68 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 53 (0.62%) ISO 20022
13 50 (0.58%) GAAP
14 37 (0.43%) PCI DSS
15 36 (0.42%) Solvency II
16 30 (0.35%) SEPA
17 26 (0.30%) COBIT
18 24 (0.28%) MiFID
19 21 (0.24%) SOC 2
20 19 (0.22%) EMIR
System Software
1 235 (2.73%) Docker
2 223 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 75 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 26 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.21%) RACF
7 17 (0.20%) vSphere
8 14 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.12%) NFS
11 8 (0.093%) IAG
12 6 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.046%) ACF2
14 4 (0.046%) KVM
14 4 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.035%) GPFS
15 3 (0.035%) GridGain
16 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 393 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 150 (1.74%) Ansible
3 87 (1.01%) Grafana
4 72 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 64 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 61 (0.71%) SCCM
7 54 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.30%) Control-M
8 26 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.16%) Argo
10 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
11 11 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.13%) Puppet
12 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 10 (0.12%) Packer
12 10 (0.12%) vRealize
13 9 (0.10%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.10%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.093%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,269 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 748 (8.68%) Oracle
3 665 (7.72%) SAP
4 330 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 321 (3.73%) Databricks
6 221 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 189 (2.19%) Google
8 147 (1.71%) IBM
9 123 (1.43%) VMware
10 116 (1.35%) Workday
11 108 (1.25%) Cisco
12 106 (1.23%) Splunk
13 81 (0.94%) CyberArk
14 73 (0.85%) OpenAI
15 65 (0.75%) Ariba
16 55 (0.64%) Bloomberg
17 51 (0.59%) Citrix
18 47 (0.55%) Sage
19 46 (0.53%) Murex
20 45 (0.52%) Red Hat